Usually means: Thirty minutes; one-half hour.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word half-hour:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. half-hour: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. half-hour, half-hour: Collins English Dictionary
  3. half-hour: Vocabulary.com
  4. Half-Hour, Half-hour, half-hour: Wordnik
  5. half-hour: Wiktionary
  6. half-hour: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. half-hour: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. half-hour: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. half-hour: Dictionary.com
  10. half-hour: Rhymezone
  11. half-hour: FreeDictionary.org
  12. half-hour: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. half-hour: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half-hour: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
▸ noun:  The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour.

Similar:
30 minutes, halfmonth, quarter-hour, half an hour, quarter of an hour, half-time, quarter, hour, half-century, interval, more...

Opposite:
hour, 60 minutes, full hour

Phrases:
half-hour glass, HBO Comedy Half-Hour, more...



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Similar:
30 minutes, halfmonth, quarter-hour, half an hour, quarter of an hour, half-time, quarter, hour, half-century, interval, more...

Opposite:
hour, 60 minutes, full hour

Phrases:
half-hour glass, HBO Comedy Half-Hour, more...



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